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Even 10 days after the Malaysia Airline’s Kuala
Lumpur-Beijing flight MH370 went mysteriously missing, no definite
information has been made available either to the families of the
passengers, or in the public domain. Several theories have been floated
on what could have happened to the aircraft. Aviation expert A.
Ranganathan analyses the probable theories and comes up with a scary
scenario:

An Italian court has barred India from encashing bank
guarantees worth over Rs. 2,360 crore of AgustaWestland as part of the
penalties imposed on it after scrapping of the Rs. 3,600 crore VVIP
chopper deal.

(Reuters) - Some
U.S. doctors are becoming concerned about the quality of generic drugs
supplied by Indian manufacturers following a flurry of recalls and
import bans by the Food and Drug Administration.India supplies about 40 percent
of generic and over-the-counter drugs used in the United States, making
it the second-biggest supplier after Canada.

Though there is no cure, treatments in the form of therapies can
greatly lessen symptoms of muscular dystrophy and improve the quality of
life
Last week, I learnt that Vishal had succumbed to the
disease he had so valiantly fought for nearly 25 years. Though I had
anticipated this news, it nevertheless affected me immensely.
Vishal
was born a healthy, chubby baby; everyone adored him, and his
grandparents couldn’t get enough of him.

A series of programmes to create awareness and gather
support for the implementation of the Madhav Gadgil-led Western Ghats
Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) report will begin in the district with a
public discussion at Kudremukh National Park near Aladangady in
Belthangady taluk on April 1.

Doctors and scientists at a hospital Chennai have
reported the very first occurrence of a rare disease, Haim-Munk Syndrome
(HMS) — found only among specific Jewish populations — in a woman of
Dravidian descent. Genetic analysis has identified the same gene
mutation as the causative factor

1.Ceren declared President of El SalvadorEl Salvador’s election officials on Sunday declared ex-leftist guerrilla
commander Sanchez Ceren the winner of a March 9 presidential election,
after rejecting the opposition’s last challenges to the results.

The March 16 referendum on whether the southeastern Ukrainian province of Crimea should unite with Russia or have greater autonomy within Ukraine has presented the United States and the European Union with their most severe political test in decades.

The Hindu Archives A wounded Indian soldier being evacuated to hospital during the 1962 war with China. For the first time, a large section of the still classified Henderson Brooks Report, which details a comprehensive operational review of India’s military debacle in 1962, has been made public

Study finds correlation between rainfall in India and aerosol levels over W. Asia
Monsoon rains over India could increase if desertification leads to more dust from West Asia and North Africa swirling into the air, suggests a research report being published in Nature Geoscience.
There has been growing interest in examining how fine particles in the atmosphere, known as aerosols, affect the climate. However, much of this research has looked at particles generated by human activity, especially the role of soot. Aerosol role
But natural aerosols, such as sea-salt and dust, are far more abundant than human-produced ones, remarked V. Vinoj, who is currently with IIT Bhubaneswar. The research appearing online in Nature Geoscience was carried out by him with Philip J. Rasch's group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the U.S.
Analysing observational data, Dr. Vinoj and his colleagues found that monsoon rainfall during June, July and August over central India was strongly corr…

1.Crimea Parliament declares independence after vote,EU to reject outcome
Crimea’s Parliament on Monday declared the region an independent state, after its residents voted overwhelmingly to break off from Ukraine and seek to join